- Airports Can Opt-Out of TSA Screening in Favor of Private Companies.
- Surfaces that Keep the Ice Away. Or, de-icing through nanotechnology.
- Sea Life Flourishes in the Gulf.
- A Techno-Agrarian Manifesto. Or, what the heck are we going to do with all that empty space in Detroit?
- Surprise Link Between Weird Quantum Phenomena: Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Sets Limits on Einstein’s ‘Spooky Action at a Distance’. Yeah, this one’s as brain-melty as the title implies. It’s worth a read just for the mind-expanding experience.
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Linkpost, 11/16/10 to 11/19/10
Linkpost, 10/26/2010
- Bees’ tiny brains beat computers, study finds. For those of you in the industry, the key buzz-phrase here is “traveling salesman problem”.
- Japanese scientists are planning to print smells with ink-jets.
- Balloon filled with ground coffee makes ideal robotic gripper.
- Chupacabra Mystery Solved.